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John W. and Hanna M. Hastings, masters of North House, say they have been "waging a private campaign" for two years to obtain a bicycle path from the Quad to the Yard, thus far with no success. "I don't know why nothing has been done, and I was very surprised to learn they've closed the Yard to bicyclists without providing a reasonable alternative route," John Hastings says...
From the very first, the trial had seemed more a political charade than an exercise of justice. The defendants complained that they were unable to obtain proper counsel because more than 50 lawyers, fearful of South Korea's repressive political climate, refused to represent them. When they proposed to introduce a long list of character witnesses from Japan and the U.S., the request was turned down. Ultimately, the prosecution's own case rested almost solely on a series of "confessions," which the defendants repudiated, testifying that they had been extracted by torture. Thus when the four generals...
...abortion argue that the form--which outlines abortion procedures, risks and alternatives and uses the phrase "human-like" to describe an eight-week-old fetus--is educational and helpful to women who have questions about abortion. They also support the second part of the law, which requires minors to obtain the consent of both parents or a judge before undergoing an abortion. The purpose of the legislation, as Federal District Judge A. David Mazzone worded it, is to insure that a pregnant woman has "a full appreciation of the consequences and significance of her decision...
Since the Faculty formed the department in 1968, up to four buildings have housed parts of the department. But biochemistry's growth created overcrowding and overuse of facilities like the biology and chemistry labs. The department attempted to raise money through private sources, but failed to obtain the necessary funds. Not until 1977 did the University appropriate the balance of the $12 million required to erect the biochemists' own building...
Whoever gets into space first with operational lasers will obtain strategic superiority there, and perhaps everywhere, literally in a flash. -By John DeMott. Reported by Jerry Hannifin/Washington